Today with electronics we have discovered that 
we live in a global village, and the job is to create 
a global city , as centre for the village margins. The 
parameters of this task are by no means 
positional. With electronics any marginal area can 
become centre, and marginal experiences can be 
had at any centre. Perhaps the city needed to 
coordinate and concert the distracted sense 
programmes of our global village will have to be 
built by computers in the way in which a big 
airport has to coordinate multiple flights.

Marshall McLuhan to Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, Dec. 23, 
1960, Letters of Marshall McLuhan , (Toronto,